It’s the start of a three-day weekend, which I got to start a little early when my office closed (not unexpectedly; they sent out an e-mail earlier in the week) at 3 PM. That I managed to finish the one piece of work I needed to finish before the end of the day — and a few other small bits besides — is nothing short of a minor miracle. <\/p>\n
Well, a very minor miracle. But this was definitely something I wanted to finish and send out to an editor before the end of the day, and I’m pleased that I did. I won’t get feedback on it until next week, and it’s for a meeting I have yet to schedule for the week right after, but I don’t think it will be too much of a problem. Even if I am<\/i> out of the office all of next week.<\/p>\n
I’m cheating a bit by not taking next Tuesday off. I do plan to work that day, but it’ll be from home, nestled between Memorial Day and three days of vacation. Plus, of course, next<\/i> weekend…and the Monday following, kind of, since starting that first week of June my telecommuting day will switch to Mondays. I don’t expect to go back into the office until June 4th. <\/p>\n
Of course, I’ll also be moving into summer hours then, which means an extra forty-five minutes of work four days a week, but I’m glad I’ll be able to ease into it like this.<\/p>\n
I’d originally taken the days off because I thought I’d be house-sitting while my parents were away, but they’ve decided, for various reasons, not to be<\/i> away. I suppose I could have cancelled the days off, and there’s a part of me that would like to be using my vacation time for something more productive, for an actual vacation<\/i>, for going somewhere, preferably someplace where the weather’s a touch more consistent or at least free of the disgusting humidity we’ve endured most of this week.<\/p>\n
Of course, there’s also a part of me that’s planning to look for an apartment soon, the part of me that’s already on the hook for a couple of thousand (and counting) to future Kaleidotrope<\/a> contributors, and the part of me that recognizes that I don’t make a huge amount of money. (Kaleidotrope<\/i> certainly doesn’t bring in any.) A real vacation might be nice, and it’s been a while, but it’s not like I won’t enjoy several days of just sitting around, watching TV, reading, and — and this is something I’ve told myself I have<\/i> to do — writing.<\/p>\n For now, I’m just going to enjoy the Memorial Day weekend and play it from there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s the start of a three-day weekend, which I got to start a little early when my office closed (not unexpectedly; they sent out an e-mail earlier in the week) at 3 PM. That I managed to finish the one piece of work I needed to finish before the end of the day — and … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[28,52],"class_list":["post-10474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-personal","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10474"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10475,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10474\/revisions\/10475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}